Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Nantucket, Massachusetts, November 29, 2024. REUTERS/Craig Hudson
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US President Joe Biden said he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, a reversal after pledging to stay out of legal proceedings against the younger Biden who pleaded guilty to tax violations and was convicted on firearms-related charges.
Georgia's president, locked in a standoff with her own government, appealed to European countries to confront what she described as a Russian attempt to impose control on her nation.
Chad's President Mahamat Deby said the decision to terminate the country's military pact with France was taken because it had become outdated, in his first public remarks since the surprise announcement last week.
China's 10-year yield dropped below 2% to hit its lowest point on record, breaking a psychological barrier as a sputtering economy and bets on further rate cuts drive investors into the safety of bonds.
Workers at nine Volkswagen car and component plants across Germany started strikes lasting several hours, bringing assembly lines to a halt as labor and management clash over the future of the carmaker's German operations.
British house prices rose at their fastest annual pace in two years in November, adding to signs of resilience in the property market despite high borrowing costs, data from mortgage lender Nationwide showed.
Just days before UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel set his sight on a takeover target in Italy, more evidence emerged of fierce resistance to his interest in German flagship lender Commerzbank.
Can the Panama Canal reinvent itself before the next drought?
Tres Hermanas community is one of the towns that will be drowned if a project to build a new water reservoir moves forward. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun
Threatened by climate change, the Panama Canal has big plans to combat drought.
Energy Correspondent Marianna Parraga speaks to the Reuters World News podcast about the controversial dam project.
Active and defunct satellites in low Earth Orbit. Digantara Handout/via REUTERS
The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said.
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